Word: bihar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week, when the votes were counted, the pattern could be clearly seen: in states such as Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Bihar, where the sterilization program was pursued with the most zeal but the least preparation, the defection from the Congress Party was the most severe...
...greater insult than to say that I could be influenced by reactionaries or by anyone else." Mrs. Gandhi's "exposure" of the Communists evoked a chorus of support from other Congress members, who accused the Communists of "betrayal of the people." In Patna, the capital of Bihar, Youth Congress members paraded the streets carrying placards: COMMUNIST PARTY MURDABAD, SANJAY GANDHI ZINDABAD (Death to the Communist Party, long live Sanjay Gandhi...
Critics see him as an irresponsible rabble-rouser out to destroy democratic government. To his admirers, he is the champion of the downtrodden, a political savior who has emerged from retirement to save them from what they see as despotic rule. The independent-minded son of a minor Bihar state official, Narayan at the age of 19 used a $600 wedding gift to set off alone to the U.S., where he studied at Berkeley and the University of Wisconsin and became a convert to Communism. Returning to India, he became deeply involved with Gandhi and Nehru in the independence movement...
When rampaging students in Gujarat managed to bring down the state government, J.P. was impressed and decided to try to do the same thing in Bihar, his home state. The demonstrations led to riots, and Mrs. Gandhi appealed to J.P. to call them off. He refused. When Railways Minister Lalit Mishra was assassinated on a visit to Bihar last January, the Congress Party accused Narayan of unleashing a "cult of violence, intimidation and coercion...
...first ranking national politician assassinated in India since Mohandas Gandhi was shot in 1948, Mishra had recently been the target of corruption charges involving the issuance of import licenses during his term as Minister for Foreign Trade (1970-73). The agitation in Bihar has been aimed at unseating a state government that Mishra, himself a Bihari, had strongly backed. The movement has been led by one of India's most respected political leaders, Jayaprakash Narayan, 72, a founder of the Socialist Party and one of the last of Gandhi's immediate disciples. Narayan has been pressing...